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Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED — The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. — After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end …
Discussion: paidContent.org, Insider Chatter, Rev2.org, Good Morning Silicon Valley, mathewingram.com/work, Screenwerk, WebProNews, Brad Linder's digital home, Epicenter, Techdirt, Threat Level, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, Digital Trends, BloggingStocks, Todd Watson, jkOnTheRun, ClickZ News Blog, The Gong Show, Silicon Alley Insider, michael parekh on IT, Geek Speaker, Lost Remote, Journalistopia, Portfolio.com and The Technology Liberation …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org: TimesSelect Watch: Yes, No, Maybe Redux: NYP Saya Yes
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter: Perfect Online Newspaper Storm: Digital Ads Explode, Pay Wall Implodes
Brandon West / Rev2.org: New York Times "Select" Goes Free
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Report: Times Abandons 'TimesSelect' for Free
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Rumor: TimesSelect Pay Service Ending
Adario Strange / Epicenter: Rumor Control: Post Says Times Select To Go Free
Joe Weisenthal / Techdirt: R.I.P TimesSelect? — The New York Times' plan to lock …
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab: Research Note: Strategic Errors Mini Case Study - TimesSelect
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends: New York Times Nixing Online Subscriptions?
Kevin Kelly / BloggingStocks: NYT TimesSelect becomes freely available
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Times Select going free? Is Times Reader content next?
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ News Blog: TimesSelect Headed to the Guillotine?
Andrew Parker / The Gong Show: NYT Opening Up TimesSelect Content
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: NY Times To Can TimesSelect
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: Report: NY Times to axe Times Select
Danny Sanchez / Journalistopia: NY Post report: TimesSelect is a goner
Kevin Maney / Portfolio.com: Tom Friedman Freed! Yay!
Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front: Times Unselect — The New York Post is reporting that the New …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
New York Times to ax premium online content, rival says
New York Times to ax premium online content, rival says
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: New York Times Sees Sense: Paywall Comes Crashing Down
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
New York Times To Fold TimesSelect Presaging The Death of Paid Content
New York Times To Fold TimesSelect Presaging The Death of Paid Content
Discussion: Conversion Rate Marketing Blog, Associated Press and The Next Net
Robert Gorell / Conversion Rate Marketing Blog: The Death of Paid Newspaper Content
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net: The Last Wall is About to Fall at the NYT
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Live from Apple's summer Mac product press conference — 8:51AM (all times in PST): Well, we're here... And we're a bit early. Not too many folks waiting around; we'll let you know as they start admitting. — 9:27AM: Plenty of people here now, the usual suspects — gadgetrati VIPs and, well, little old us.
Discussion: GigaOM, Apple 2.0, The Mac Observer, Epicenter, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Between the Lines, Channel 9, Tech Trader Daily, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, PaulStamatiou.com, The personal website …, Slashdot, MacUser, geeksugar, Gadget Lab, jkOnTheRun, rexblog.com, Things That, The Utility Belt, Todd Watson, Paul Colligan's …, dailywireless.org and I4U News
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Apple's New Lineup: Hardware and Software
Adario Strange / Epicenter: Reality Distortion: Steve Jobs' IMac For Business
Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Liveblogging Apple's Special Event
Dan Farber / Between the Lines: Jobs unveils new iMacs, iLife and iWork
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: Apple Introduces Spreadsheet Program, "Numbers"
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi: Live blogging from Apple's new iMac debut: new version of iMovie …
Stepto / The personal website for Stephen Toulouse: Must...have...new....iMac — Body: — Mac hardware has always …
Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen / MacUser: Mac event: Mac mini not completely left out of the party
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: The changing face of computing as measured by you
Rex Hammock / rexblog.com: iFlickr — Via Engadget, today's Steve Jobs Show reveals some new thinner, sleeker iMacs.
TDavid / Things That: New iMac versions available
Paul Colligan / Paul Colligan's Profitable Podcasting: A "New Level" At Apple? Thought'S On Apple'S Releases Today
Samc / dailywireless.org: iMac Gets "N"
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Apple Store down, Apple Media Briefing underway
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple unveils new iMacs, updated apps — Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced two new iMacs at the start of an event held Tuesday at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. — The 20-inch and 24-inch iMacs are the latest editions of Apple's all-in-one iMac design.
Discussion: Computerworld, Ars Technica, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and WinBeta
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: Apple refreshes iMacs, as expected
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: New iMacs, iLife '08 arrive from Apple
Peter / Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check: Apple unveils new iMacs, updated apps | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
Arneh / WinBeta: Apple unveils new iMacs
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple's new iMac and keyboard: first hands-on — Aight, we just got our hands on the new 4th generation iMac and its wired and wireless Bluetooth keyboards. What can we say, it's all super sexy. Unfortunately we're not too partial to the MacBook square-key grid layout, and we really …
Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog and digg
Apple Introduces iLife '08 — Major New Versions of iPhoto & iMovie — Apple® today introduced iLife® '08, the most significant upgrade ever to Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, featuring a major new version of iPhoto® and a completely reinvented …
Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley, Engadget, Compiler and Podcasting News
Chris Ziegler / Engadget: Apple updates .Mac
Michael Calore / Compiler: Apple Debuts iLife '08, Revamps and Upgrades Galore
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple's new iMac — Who could've seen this one coming?
Apple's new iMac — Who could've seen this one coming?
Discussion: Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Tech Blog, ZDNet, The Boy Genius Report, Joystiq, DigitalBattle and digg
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi: Live blogging from Apple's new iMac debut
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: The redesigned iMac desktop range emerges
Ross Miller / Joystiq: New iMacs feature DirectX 10-compatible ATI Radeon GPUs
James Hyde / DigitalBattle: Apple Unveils DX10 Comatible iMacs
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Apple refreshes Mac mini, now with Core 2 Duo
Apple refreshes Mac mini, now with Core 2 Duo
Discussion: digg
New VSS Forecast Released — Shift to Alternative Media Strategies Will Drive U.S. Communications Spending Growth in 2007-2011 Period; Consumer Media Usage Expected to Level Off Going Forward … While communications spending growth accelerated in 2006, outpacing nominal GDP for the fourth …
Discussion: HipMojo.com, Epicenter, Recovering Journalist, paidContent.org, Business Week, Boing Boing, BuzzMachine, 901am, WebProNews and E-Media Tidbits
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Television Olympian-Sized Nightmare
Adario Strange / Epicenter: Forecast: Digital Content Kills Newspapers By 2011
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org: Online Ad Spend To Overtake Newspapers By 2011: Report
Heather Green / Business Week: Blog, Podcast RSS Online Sales To Be Nearly Half Size Of Mobile Sales
Rhiza Sanchez / 901am: Online ads to overtake newspapers in 2011?
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Report: Online Advertising To Triumph In 2011
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Online ads to overtake US newspapers — The rapid growth of online advertising is expected to see the sector overtake US newspaper advertising in terms of size by 2011. — The forecast comes against a backdrop of declining advertising sales reported by newspaper groups this year in spite of continued strength in the US economy.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: 2011 vs 2021: The Web Shall Inherit the Earth
Heather Green / Business Week: Net Ad Spend To Surpass Other Media (By Including Net Sales at Traditional Sites)
Laurie Petersen / MediaPost Publications:
Internet Ad Spending Set To Overtake All Other Media By 2011: VSS
Internet Ad Spending Set To Overtake All Other Media By 2011: VSS
Discussion: HipMojo.com, Bits, Search Engine Land and Screenwerk
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Why the Web Confounds TV Playbooks
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Forecast: Internet Expected To Exceed All Other Ad Media By 2011
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: VSS: Internet to Be No. 1 Ad Medium by 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Google Maps redraw the realm of privacy — As street-level photos are added to the site, fears of intrusion arise. — Google Inc. has been watching you, Southern California. — A caravan of cars and trucks mounted with cameras has been driving city streets for months …
Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable! and GigaLaw.com Daily News
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Houston, This is Google Street View
Stephen Chau / Google LatLong:
More Street View Cities — Since the launch of Street View we've been working hard on extending the service to more cities. — We're excited to announce that Street View is now available in San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. Like the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego features high-resolution imagery.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Google Street View Adds Four Cities
David Pett / FP Trading Desk: Immersive Media's Google deal in jeopardy
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Google Street View Expands To Four New Cities
Frank Taylor / Google Earth Blog: Google Maps StreetView in Four New Cities
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: New Cities in Google Maps Street View
Haochi / Googlified: 4 More Street View Cities
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Four more cities added to Google street View
Four more cities added to Google street View
Discussion: CNET News.com
Microsoft Lowers Price of Xbox 360 by $50 — Price drop coincides with release of "Madden NFL 08" on Xbox 360, one of many titles that make up the greatest holiday lineup in video game history. — Microsoft Corp. today kicked off the greatest holiday lineup in video game history by announcing …
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: And in this sequel, the Terminator faces his most relentless and implacable foe yet
John P. Falcone / CNET News.com: Xbox 360 price drops now official
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica: Microsoft confirms price drop on Xbox 360 hardware
Dustin Burg / Xbox 360 Fanboy: Halo 3 Xbox 360 available in September for $399
David Hunter / Microsoft News Tracker: Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 prices
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 by $50
Nancy Blair / Technology Live: Microsoft to cut Xbox price by $50
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Xbox 360 System update
Xbox 360 System update
Discussion: Joystiq, GamePro.com, Xbox 360 Fanboy, GayGamer.net, Kotaku and Game | Life
Justin McElroy / Joystiq: New update prepares Xbox 360s for wireless guitars
Blake Snow / GamePro.com: Wii, Xbox 360 get updated for enhanced gameplay
Dustin Burg / Xbox 360 Fanboy: Dash update preps 360 for wireless guitars
Susan Arendt / Game | Life: Teeny Weeny Dashboard Update for 360
Chris DiBona / Official Google Blog:
Joining OIN — You'll often hear members of our open source team say, "Every time you use Google, you're using Linux." It's absolutely true. Check a Google engineer's workstation, and you'll probably find it's running Linux. Do a search on Google.com, and a Linux server will return your results.
Discussion: Between the Lines, WebProNews, Computerworld and TechSpot News
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Can Google get OIN over the enterprise hump?
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Google Joins Linux-Oriented OIN
Justin Mann / TechSpot News: Google joins Open Invention Network
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google signs on with Open Invention Network
Google signs on with Open Invention Network
Discussion: CNET News.com, Inquirer and Mashable!
Egan Orion / Inquirer: Google takes first end-user OIN licence
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: Google Joins OIN Open Source Community
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Google To Join Group To Protect Linux From Possible Patent Challenge
Google To Join Group To Protect Linux From Possible Patent Challenge
Discussion: Linux-Watch.com and Compiler
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: Google Joins Linux Patent Defense Group
Microsoft MP3 fine dropped — A US district court has overturned a decision ordering Microsoft to pay phone firm Alcatel-Lucent $1.52bn (£777m) for infringing music patents. — The federal judge in San Diego reversed a jury's decision which had ruled that Microsoft's Media Player software infringed on two Alcatel patents.
Discussion: Neowin.net and Slashdot
Bezhou Feng / Neowin.net: Microsoft's $1.5 Billion MP3 Fine Dropped
John Markoff / New York Times:
$1.5 Billion Verdict Against Microsoft Is Set Aside
$1.5 Billion Verdict Against Microsoft Is Set Aside
Discussion: Epicenter, Digital Trends, Gizmodo and IP Democracy
Terrence Russell / Epicenter: Microsoft Off The Hook In $1.5 Billion Patent Suit
Christopher Nickson / Digital Trends: Microsoft Judgment Set Aside
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Patent Predicaments: Judge Tosses $1.52 Billion MP3 Patent …
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: MP3 Verdict Derails Massive New Lawsuits...For Now
Arneh / WinBeta:
Windows XP SP3 Released To Small Group (Updated) — Forum CP · Admin CP — Add to Favorites — Welcome to WinBeta. — Your number one source for the latest Windows news and reviews. We will keep you up to date within the community and beyond!
Discussion: All about Microsoft and CyberNet Technology News
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Shhhh! Pre-beta Vista SP1 is out there
Shhhh! Pre-beta Vista SP1 is out there
Discussion: Robert McLaws, Download Squad and Alice Hill's Real Tech News
Robert McLaws / Windows Vista Edition: Windows Vista Pre-SP1 Performance and Reliability Updates Released
Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Vista SP1 Pre-Beta in Circulation?
The new Nokia Prism collection: progressive design cut with personalized style — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled the Prism collection, its latest range of mobile phones aimed at style-conscious consumers. The Prism collection consists of the Nokia 7900 Prism and the Nokia 7500 Prism …
Discussion: PC World, Engadget, IntoMobile, Phone Scoop, BetaNews and Gadget Lab
Tom Spring / PC World: Nokia Prism Phone Features OLED Display
Chris Ziegler / Engadget: Nokia makes Prism collection officially official
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile: Nokia Prism Collection: The 7900 and 7500 are official
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Nokia Prism Series: Diamonds are Forever
Leelefever / Common Craft:
Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English — We made this video because we want others to feel the power of social bookmarking and how it works to make web pages easier to remember, organize and share. — This video is focused on Del.icio.us, but you could also try social bookmarking sites like Magnolia or Furl.
Discussion: cybersoc.com, Digital Inspiration, Download Squad, PC4Media, Beth's Blog, davidrothman.net and edu.blogs.com
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration: How to Explain del.icio.us Bookmarks To Your Mom
Peter Caputa / PC4Media: Back in Techmeme Index — Maybe I never left. Who knows?
Wall Street Journal:
Music Publishers Join YouTube Copyright Suit — A trade association representing major music publishers signed on as plaintiffs in an existing lawsuit accusing YouTube of copyright infringement, joining a growing list of parties who argue Google Inc.'s video-sharing service routinely violates intellectual-property rights.
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer, BloggingStocks, paidContent.org and CNET News.com
Jackson West / NewTeeVee: Tuesday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks: More copyright troubles for YouTube
David Kaplan / paidContent.org: Music Publishers Join British Soccer League Class Action Suit Against YouTube
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com: Journalist joins class action against YouTube
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Americans Support Ban On Texting While Driving — Eighty-nine percent of American adults believe that sending text messages or emails while driving is dangerous and should be banned according to a new survey commissioned by mobile messaging service Pinger and conducted by Harris Interactive.
Discussion: Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Computerworld, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and Global Nerdy
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi: Driving while texting: polls says it should be illegal
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld: Survey: Americans say texting while driving should be illegal
Joey deVilla / Global Nerdy: I Want to Know What the Other 1 Out of 10 are Thinking
Steve Ranger / silicon.com:
Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist — Science fiction novelist William Gibson has been exploring the relationship between technology and society ever since he burst on to the literary scene with his cyberpunk classic Neuromancer in 1984. He invented the word 'cyberspace …
Discussion: Between the Lines, Epicenter, MediaVidea, Susan Mernit's Blog, Lunch over IP and Slashdot
Adario Strange / Epicenter: William Gibson And The Anti-Wisdom Of Corporate Futurism
Bruno Giussani / Lunch over IP: William "cyberspace" Gibson gives up on the future
CmdrTaco / Slashdot: William Gibson Gives Up on the Future


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(CNN) -- It was another December afternoon back in 2000, spent like hundreds of others combing the rocky hills of the Dikika region, when Ethiopian scientist Zeray Alemseged heard one of his assistants nearby calling him.
"He said 'oh, doctor I see something there,'" recalls Alemseged, who'd been excavating the hot and dry landscape for over a year, helped only by a small inexperienced crew of locals. "And I went there and I see the cheek bone part ... sticking out of the rock. I turned it upside down and my jaw literally dropped."
Instantly, Alemseged realized this was an extraordinary discovery that could make scientific history.
"Right away I could tell this is a child of a human ancestor," says the paleoanthropologist. "You have this child in a block of sandstone, with the baby teeth still visible, very vertical forehead, small canine," he adds. "But it's so rare and so unbelievable that I just couldn't accept that was the case, that what I saw was the skeleton."
Yet Alemseged did not want to make news of his discovery public until he had a more complete picture of what he'd unearthed. So he kept it quiet as he meticulously prepared and analyzed the fossil.
"The skeleton was encaved in a block of sandstone matrix, which is very densely compact, very inured sand, so that I had to go remove the sand grain by grain," says Alemseged.
"So I took my time, and people advised me to employ technicians, and technicians can do that job, but I said 'no, it's going to take as long as it takes but I'm not going to delegate this work of the exploration of this unique child to anyone else but me.'"
Alemseged then spent years in the lab painstakingly picking away the sand grain by grain. By using a super microscope, he was able to see details in the teeth embedded in the skull that revealed to him the skeleton's age and the sex. He now knew the fossil was that of a three-year-old girl who had died 3.3 million years ago.
Finally, after more than six long years, Alemseged was ready to present to the world "Selam," the fossil known as "the world's oldest child."
"When the time came to go to the press conference," remembers Alemseged, "it was like a woman is pregnant and she is holding that baby for nine months and when the baby comes out, what happens is -- in spite of the pain, in spite of the long, tedious process of carrying the baby -- you see her smiling, you see her beautiful wonderful face trying to share the baby with her husband or the doctor.
"So I shared my baby with the audience but the different thing is that I was sharing a child that belonged not only to me but to humanity, to seven billion individuals."
That press conference in 2006 turned Alemseged, who was just 31 when he'd discovered Selam, into a hero in the world of science.
Over the next few years, his work took him all over the world, winning him international admiration for his achievements. Today Alemseged is the director of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences, a multifaceted scientific institution and museum where he combines his scientific research with his passion for public education.
"When I got involved in this type of research I decided to not only read what has already been discovered but also to make my own discoveries and I can proudly say that I have achieved that with the discovery of Selam and many other fossils," he says. "Those finds are finds that change textbooks, literally, so I am happy but I'm not satisfied -- I will be satisfied only if I could instill the same type of psychology, the same type of excitement, the same type of passion to the next generations of Africans."
Alemseged, a father of two, enjoys the opportunity to share his findings with the world and possibly inspire a new generation of scientists.
In recent years, he's teamed up with other scientists from his continent to create the East African Association for Paleoanthropology, a group holding regular conferences to bring together top scientists and researchers from the region and beyond.
And while his achievements have made him a success story that young Ethiopians can aspire to, Alemseged's efforts to create a positive impact on young Africans are just a small step toward his ultimate goals.
"I think both my family and Ethiopia are proud of me, but I still think that I still have so much to offer, not just to Ethiopia, but to Africa and to humanity in general," he says.
"My work is beyond nations, beyond nationalities, beyond continents -- it unites everyone on the planet. So when I achieve that, I'm sure Ethiopia and my family are or will be proud of me and I thank them for all of the opportunities they have provided me with also."


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UN Peacekeeping is a unique global partnership. It draws together the legal and political authority of the Security Council, the personnel and financial contributions of Member States, the support of host countries and the accumulated experience of the Secretariat in managing operations in the field. It is this partnership that gives UN Peacekeeping its legitimacy, sustainability and global reach.
Since its beginning in 1948, United Nations peacekeeping has evolved into one of the main tools used by the international community to manage complex crises that threaten international peace and security.
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, which is commemorated each year on the 29th of May, is an occasion to salute the 120,000 peacekeepers serving in 17 missions in some of the world's most volatile and dangerous environments. This Day is also a time to mourn fallen peacekeepers. During its history, nearly 3,000 "Blue Helmets" have died devoting their lives to peace, including 112 men and women in 2011.
This year, the United Nations is marking the Day by highlighting the global partnerships that help sustain UN Peacekeeping and make it the success that it is.
Global Partnership for Global Peace
The theme for this year's International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, commemorated on 29 May 2012, is "Peacekeeping as a global partnership" and recognizes the important contributions of all our partners working to bring sustainable peace and security through our missions around the world.
Currently, UN Peacekeeping operations receive contributions of military and police personnel from 116 Member States. This impressive number reflects growing global confidence in the value of United Nations Peacekeeping as a tool for collective security. It also demonstrates the strength and breadth of the partnership that the UN Organization has with the countries, large and small, that make it up.
In addition to those partnerships with individual Member States, United Nations Peacekeeping works closely with UN agencies, funds and programmes in support of humanitarian and development work on the ground. Creative partnerships with international and regional organizations are also becoming a regular feature in UN Peacekeeping to create a common vision, build capacity and share costs. A recent example includes the African Union (AU) in the work of the joint African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur. Working together to address threats to global security and to save lives they are a beacon of hope to millions of people around the world.
Remembering fallen peacekeepers
On 29 May, UN offices, alongside Member States and non-governmental organizations, hold solemn events to honour fallen peacekeepers.
At the UN Headquarters in New York, the Secretary-General presides over a wreath-laying ceremony in honour of all peacekeepers who lost their lives while serving under the UN flag.
In addition, the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal is awarded posthumously to the peacekeepers who have fallen while serving in the cause of peace, during the preceding year.
Since the first UN peacekeeping mission was established in 1948, more than 2,990 military, police and civilian personnel have lost their lives in the service of peace as a result of acts of violence, accidents and disease.
Useful links:
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155, Block C2,7th and 8th floor, Brussels 1040, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 788 8484 / Fax: 32 2 788 8485


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What an incredible catch – and what an incredible game. You know, he's had his share of ups and downs in his career (lots of downs I suppose), but he had a huge game tonight. He's filled in admirably for a totally absent Greg Jennings tonight (who ultimately has fallen victim to interests outside of football in my estimation).
Jones a hero tonight
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Kozak Says:
September 30, 2012 at 7:08 pm |
That's really harsh, Jennings is hurt. I don't think a coupe of commercials is a big deal. We really need him healthy.
Jeff L Says:
September 30, 2012 at 8:31 pm |
Yeah Andrew. Good for Jones. A perrenial whipping boy. Finley had a decent game too. It was merely average for a league filled with stud TE's but he usually dissapoints vs. His hype so I'll take it. This one had the potential to be a season killer with all the bad calls 2 games in a row. And those dropped interceptions! The trend was to lose the game. Great to persevere. I can't believe that woodson didn't pull some dumb pi penalty after he was so upset. If I were saints I would have thrown at him. He is prone to overplay at times and likely would have at that point in game.
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October 1, 2012 at 11:50 am |
I agree with Kozak on Jennings. I agree with Jeff L. on the fact that BOTH Jones and Finley played well beyond what we are used to.


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A rogue reviewer posted a draft this week of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's next report, in a bid to promote climate change denial.
Instead the draft reaffirms humanity's starring role in global warming, which, along with sea level rise is now "unequivocal." Also human caused CO2 increases are now "virtually certain" to be responsible for trapping extra heat. And it is "extremely likely that human activities have caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperatures since the 1950s."
In other words, we're well on our way towards global warming of 2 degrees Celsius or more by 2050, if not sooner. After all, concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are likely to hit 400 parts-per-million this coming spring or next.
The final draft isn't due until next fall and the leak highlights a need to consider updating the IPCC process. Global warming no longer needs confirmation—instead the world needs solutions to climate change's challenges. After all, "many aspects of climate change will persist for centuries even if concentrations of greenhouse gases are stabilized."
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Privacy at issue as drones take on civilian tasks
With our wars winding down and the domestic use of drones ramping up, the multibillion-dollar industry wants to upgrade its image as makers of assassins in the sky.
After all, these "unmanned aerial vehicles" can also play important roles as sophisticated map makers, aerial photographers, search and rescue aids and scientific tools.
Privacy advocates, however, are gravely concerned about another obvious domestic use: midair snoop.
Last month, President Obama signed a law that directs the Federal Aviation Administration to create a set of rules that clears the way for more use of drones by businesses and law enforcement. For years, the FAA has tightly restricted their use, for fear the vehicles could collide with aircraft, considerations that are sure to be the focus of the agency's study of the matter.
But the Electronic Privacy Information Center quickly issued a petition calling on the FAA to examine and address drones' "unique threat" to privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Watchdog and dozens of other groups signed on.
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Technically, unmanned aerial vehicles (some quibble with the word drone) are remote or autonomously controlled aircraft, a broad category that can encompass military-grade weapons as well as small do-it-yourself helicopters with cameras.
"They raise the prospect of bringing surveillance to a whole new level," said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the ACLU.
Among other things, the letter noted that sophisticated drones can track up to 65 targets across 65 square miles. They can also carry high-definition cameras, heat sensors, automated license plate readers and, eventually, facial recognition technology.
The petition said that law enforcement agencies and private detectives have already begun to use them, and that paparazzi, criminals and stalkers could be next. It raised particular concerns about government use of drones, which make persistent surveillance cheap and enable law enforcement to stare through the windows and even walls that used to represent private domains.
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Ryan Calo, director of privacy at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, worries that drones could nudge us closer to a surveillance state, where police shift from responding to real crimes to indiscriminately hunting for infractions and suspicious behavior.
"I'm worried about the next phase of policing that's completely automated," he said.
At the same time, drones might be so different that they force a fundamental rethinking of privacy rights.
For all the clamoring over digital privacy invasions these days, with apps peeking at address books and advertisers tracking online activity, the dangers still feel largely abstract to many.
But we get - in an immediate and visceral way - what it means to have floating video cameras tracking our every move, Calo said.
"Drones come with their own psychological baggage," he said. "We think of them as inscrutable robots that we associate with targeted killing."
He argues it will only be a matter of time before test cases emerge that alarm citizens and judges, as drones observe people in settings we've traditionally considered private. If so, it could set broader precedents for what constitutes a reasonable search with drones or other controversial technologies, like GPS tracking, smart-phone monitoring and ground-based surveillance systems.
Ben Gielow, general counsel at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, readily acknowledges that the industry is in need of repositioning as it moves into the nonmilitary sphere. He said the Virginia trade group is planning an education campaign aimed at consumers and regulators.
He argues, however, that there's a legal framework for dealing with the privacy concerns. Peeping Tom and other privacy laws restrict drones from spying into windows. In addition, Gielow said, Supreme Court cases have established that police need warrants for helicopter surveillance under certain conditions.
"There is already case law and history for how police can legally use these types of cameras and sensors," he said.
But in the cases he cited - Florida vs. Riley and California vs. Ciraolo - the majority concluded that the aerial observation in question didn't require a warrant. A line in the Riley decision suggested that police surveillance below 400 feet might violate reasonable expectations of privacy - and thus, one presumes, could require a warrant.
Fine details
But drones can observe in fine detail from well above that limit, so it's hard to see how the case satisfies the privacy concerns in question.
Addressing these concerns is important, but what shouldn't get lost in the debate are the many promising uses of drones, said Stephen Morris, president of the MLB Co., a Mountain View company that manufacturers unmanned aerial vehicles.
Drones can be used for crop dusting, disaster response, monitoring greenhouse gases, spotting critical infrastructure problems, tracking wildlife populations, fighting fires and many other tasks that might subject humans to harm.
"They're robots," Morris said. "They do the dull, dirty, dangerous jobs really well, where you don't have or want a manned system."
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2009 Bisons MVP OF JESUS FELICIANO led the way for the Herd on Saturday, going 2-4 with two runs, an RBI and a stolen base. Newcomer INF MIKE CERVENAK also went 2-4 with an RBI.
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I wonder if they had to TBC it because team #1 will be released before someone is eliminated, a la TAR10.
Well, we don't know whether leg 7 is or is not an elimination. But I don't think we'll be leaving Moscow without an NEL.The detour, both sides of it, were hilarious. The swim coach was excellent as a judge, she did seem to be very consistent about what she would accept.
The detour was good. I expected though that the judge would be quite lenient with the synchronized swimming (just like the Bollywood dance in the last season). The library task looked the easier one to do, and actually on the side of one of the filing cabinets did appear to be the Russian alphabet in alphabetical order, but I'm not sure either team noticed it.
.... Mark's Bollywood dance routine in Tanzania Kerala, India, was not getting better....
Yes, but I bet most of the teams have their visa in their backpack. I suppose always have your backpack with you as you can't trust anyone else with it.
Woah, do they have new detour icons?? Or is this just the first time I notice it xD
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A few days after the recent election I heard a right wing talk show host speculate that Barack Obama would choose the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to offer the prayer at the inauguration. Shortly after that I was involved in an online discussion, in which most of the participants were of what I call the Latin Right persuasion. One of them said that he had heard that Mr Obama had chosen the homosexual Episcopalian prelate Gene Robinson to do the honors.
Well, a couple of days ago Senator Obama announced his choice to offer the invocation: Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Church and author of The Purpose Driven Life.
While the Reverend Warren's white bread megachurch evangelicalism is not my favorite type of Christianity, or even Protestantism -although to his credit he does not limit evangelical social concern to the pelvic issues- what is important is that he is opposed to both abortion and homosexual marriage. And so his selection has prompted anger among homosexual activists. Abortion advocates, who are apparently more politically savvy than gay activists, have been silent, having counseled one another to have low expectations in light of expediency.
Now Mr Obama no doubt knew that his choice would not be popular among his gay supporters, but he chose to offend them rather than Evangelical and prolife folks. It's hard not to see this as a peace offering, an indication that he does not wish to stoke the fires of the so-called culture wars. Certainly his cabinet choices have shown that he is not intending a radical change: the State Department is now full of Democratic interventionists instead of Republican ones, alas. While this in particular is regrettable, in most ways the way his administration is shaping up indicates that he is not going to come out with guns blazing, forging a radical proabortion path. It is doubtful, after offering an olive branch to Evangelicals that he will want war with Catholics.
Let us hope that the dire predictions of Obama closing Catholic hospitals who refuse to perform abortions and stripping all state limitations on abortion prove as misplaced as the ones about the Reverends Wright and Robinson.
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|One of many fantastic things that would not have happened if we'd had a destination wedding - because few (if any) of these wonderful people would have been able to come.
According to the latest statistics, 24% of you out there decide to have destination weddings. Our apologies to anyone who had/is having a destination wedding, but we think it was/is a bad idea. Personally, I don't think that "do not have a destination wedding" should be advice - I think it should be a rule.
Destination weddings embody the epitome of the "it's all about me" mentality. Think about it - you're essentially forcing your friends and family to take extra time off work and take a vacation to somewhere not of their own choosing while you're the center of attention for the whole vacation. It's so preposterous that I'm surprised this trend ever got started in the first place.
In addition to not being very considerate of the (probably relatively few) friends and family who will be able to afford to attend a destination wedding, you are (unless you run in fabulously wealthy circles) probably cutting most of your friends and family out of celebrating your wedding with you - and remember that they want to celebrate with you; they just don't want to celebrate completely on your terms.
Personally, we have only attended one destination wedding (at a picturesque lake somewhere in Europe), and honestly, we only attended because we just happened to be living in an adjoining country at the time - we never would have come if we'd had to travel from the USA like the rest of the wedding party. The only people who could attend were a few family members and one friend - even the parents of the bride couldn't attend!
By contrast, we held our wedding in our hometown, and we were able to host a gigantic party for 80 of our family members and closest friends - all for far less than what the airfare alone would cost for a destination wedding.
From our (limited) experience, in addition to being a significant time and financial burden on the few people who can attend and shutting out most of your friends and family from coming, having a destination wedding adds even more stress to the engaged couple. After all, you're adding vacation stress (travel and logistics in an unfamiliar place; not knowing the language; dealing with strange food; dealing with strange hairdressers and tailors in a foreign language; etc.) to the normal wedding stress - not a good combination. And unless you're going somewhere so remote that your wedding party is the only group around, everyone else at your destination wedding location will be conspicuously gawking at the bizarre spectacle unfolding before them - I am remembering a town full of Europeans who watched this American girl run around their tiny town in street clothes and a veil, and then in a wedding dress, for an entire day - they were utterly perplexed, and they did not try to hide their confusion.
Please please please, save everyone time, nerves, and money - don't have a destination wedding. Hold your wedding in one of your hometowns (even if you rarely go there anymore, like us), or if you really can't stand either of your hometowns, in an easily accessible, neutral third location, preferably somewhere about halfway between where your respective families live. Trust me - you'll thank me.
I'm guessing at least 24% of you vehemently disagree with this post; feel free to explain in the comments why a destination wedding was the only thing that made sense for you. And please go into a little more depth than "it was the only way to limit the number of guests" - while that may be true, I hope that's not all there is to it, since it's easy enough to limit guest numbers in other ways. (My new favorite way of limiting the number of guests is to hold the wedding on a random day, like a Tuesday.)
*NOTE TO COMMENTERS [8-25-2014]: I'm thrilled that this post continues to draw passionate comments three years after I originally put it up - but the number of comments on this post has revealed some problems with Blogger's commenting system. To see all the comments on this post, you'll need to push "Load more comments" at the bottom of the page below the comments - probably more than once, until you no longer see the option to "Load more comments". You'll also probably have to do this to see your own comment after you post it. Thanks for commenting!*
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There are a number of things that can trigger the decision to remodel or move to a new home. Perhaps you have outgrown your current space, you might be tired of struggling with ancient plumbing or wiring systems, or maybe your home just feels out of date. The question is: Should you stay or should you go?
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This year's Community Service Day took place on Friday, June 21. Windermere agents from Mukilteo to Missoula donated more than 55,000 hours of service to local projects at senior citizens centers, public parks and schools, low-income housing developments, and emergency shelters, among others.
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Set in Nazi occupied France, Inglourious Basterds is a film that took Quentin Tarantino over a decade to write and produce. Multiple plot threads, an ever expanding script and difficulty with the movie's conclusion meant that from first to final draft, a decade had elapsed. The completed script is one of pure Tarantino penmanship. Featuring ideas of revenge, duplicity and malice while scattered with pop references, albeit from a different era, Inglouious Basterds is as Tarantino as a Mexican stand-off in a Big Kahuna Burger Restaurant. Nominated for eight Academy Awards and taking over $320 million worldwide, it is also one of the director's most successful to date.
Split into five chapters, the film focuses on the efforts of two sets of people to bring down the Third Reich. Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) is a young Jewish woman who, early in the film, escapes death at the hands of the gifted 'Jew Hunter' Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Having dodged an early grave, Shosanna relocates to Paris where she runs a small cinema which we shall come back to later. Meanwhile, elsewhere in France, the Basterds, a group of American Jewish soldiers, led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) are scouring the countryside in search of Nazis to bludgeon and scalp. When the Basterds hear that the entire Nazi high command will be in Paris for the Premier of Goebbels latest propaganda film, they set in motion a plan to end the war the very same night.


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I like the flavor, flexibility, and role-playing inspirations provided by Themes, as introduced in D&D 4E Darksun and added in general in Dragon #399. I'm planning to use them in the game I'm starting. The problem is that there just aren't enough. A little over a dozen character concepts are covered — if I require that players choose a theme, that's quite restrictive. And if I make it optional and some people take it, the themes give enough extra power and flexibility that it's kind of a punishment to characters for whom a theme does not fit.
There are another three dozen themes from Darksun and Neverwinter and other miscellaneous articles, but most of them are very setting-specific and would require at least some degree of adaptation.
So, would offering a number of free multiclassing feats be a fair and balanced alternative option I could give to players who don't feel like any of the themes are a match?
Themes generally offer:
- A basic feature like shapeshifting or cost-free-alchemy
- Feature upgrades at levels 5 and 10
- Alternative utility powers
Would it be roughly equivalent to offer a bonus multiclass feat at first level and additional multiclass feats at levels 5 and 10 (must meet prereqs/follow restrictions), plus the 8th-level Acolyte Power feat (which lets you swap a utility power for one from your multiclass class)?
This wouldn't automatically give the flavor of themes, of course, but would provide an alternative framework without having to create a whole new theme from scratch.
Is the basic idea here sound? Is the proposal too much or too little? (And if so, what can I remove or add?) Are there any unforeseen consequences?


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posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 12:01 pm
Dear Bengt & Linda Muthén,
I recently purchased Mplus in order to fit a multilevel path model with ordered categorical variables both as a mediator and as an outcome variable. Individuals are clustered within countries.
What I would like to examine is the effect of both occupation and industry sector (measured at the individual level) on job security (and further on childbearing intentions). Because I have a large number of occupational groups (for now I have aggregated them in 25 groups but this may even be too coarse), it is cumbersome to treat them as fixed effects (and thus add 24 dummies with only about 650 individuals in total). Furthermore I hypothesize the effect to vary between countries which would require 24 random slopes.
Therefore I thought it might be feasible to include a random effect for occupation and possibly sector instead of a fixed effect and examine the variance components and EB estimates in more detail to see whether some significant variation of job security across occupations actually exists and whether this covaries with the random intercept at the country level. This, I think could be achieved by a cross-classified random effect model (please correct me if I'm wrong).
If I understand correctly, such models are not possible in Mplus 5.21 (yet)? Do you have any suggestions on how to work around this?
Thanks already for your thoughts,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 12:24 pm
Yes, sounds like a cross-classified random effect model. It cannot yet be done in Mplus. Perhaps you could keep country (type) as a fixed effect.
Mieke Jansen
posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 2:00 pm
Thank you for your quick reply! Ideally I would also like to include at least 1 country-level variable as an explanatory variable. This is why I was considering multilevel path models to start with.
Unfortunately it then looks like I will have to treat either occupation or country as a fixed variable in my model.
Best regards,
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Matthew D. Hutcheson, an Idaho-based trustee and fiduciary for a number of employer pension plans, was sentenced on Thursday to a jail term of 17 ½ years and ordered to pay his victims $5.3 million in restitution.
A federal jury in Boise on April 16 had convicted Hutcheson, 41, of Eagle, of 17 counts of wire fraud, according to the FBI's Salt Lake City Division. During the eight-day trial, the government presented evidence that beginning in 2010, Hutcheson perpetrated schemes to defraud the Tamarack Resort in Donnelly, Idaho, on behalf of a limited liability corporation he controlled, called Green Valley Holdings LLC.
The FBI arrested Hutcheson at his home on April 11, 2012.
The indictment states that Hutcheson was a trustee and fiduciary for the G Fiduciary Retirement Income Security Plan, National Retirement Security Plan 401(k) and the Retirement Security Plan and Trust. It accused him of perpetrating schemes to defraud the plans and misappropriate more than $5 million of plan assets.
According to the indictment, from January 2010 through December 2010, Hutcheson misappropriated approximately $2 million of G Fiduciary assets for his personal use. On 12 occasions, it alleged, Hutcheson directed the plan's record keeper to make wire transfers of plan assets from an account at Charles Schwab to bank accounts controlled by Hutcheson and to other bank accounts for his personal benefit.
"Pension plan fraud represents not only a violation of the law but a betrayal of trust," said Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, in a statement at the time of the indictment. "Those who provide services for workers saving for retirement must serve the best interests of those workers. The Department of Labor will continue to pursue all possible avenues to root out fraud in employee benefits management."
The indictment alleged that Hutcheson used these assets to renovate his home, to repay personal loans, to purchase luxury automobiles, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles and for other personal expenses. When plan record keepers and others requested information about the location and status of the plan assets, Hutcheson misrepresented that they were safely invested.
Hutcheson was also accused of misappropriating about $3 million of Retirement Security Plan and Trust assets to pursue the purchase of the Tamarack Resort.
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